A 'holy day'. Yep. Time to carve a Wiccan symbol in the little boy's back. He was six years old.

Do we need "holy days"? They cause all sorts of stress and disruption. A person can claim to be of any "religion" and that in their religion
"this day is a holy day, so by law I can have the day off" (from work, school, chores, whatever).

The article doesn't say what "religion" this jackass believes in, but it sure ain't a Christ-like or Humanist one.
And, for the record, 12/12/12 is NOT a "holy day" to the Wiccans, who use the pentagram for ritual and ceremonial purposes, and to identify
themselves to others (such as wearing of a pendant, etc).

I'm not saying no one should EVER get a day off, but the justification for bad behavior should NEVER be a religion.
IMO.

His mother, in a telephone interview from Portland, Ore., said her son does not have a history of mental illness but has recently been under a
tremendous amount of stress.

"Brent is not a demon," Lori Ponce said. "He is loving. He loves that boy. Something happened. Don't paint him as some crazy man. No, that's not
him."

His stepfather said he had been searching for his spirituality.

"He is deep into the Old Testament," said John Ponce, his stepfather, in the telephone interview from Portland. "There's a possibility with all of
this pain and marital strife and such, he may have resorted to Old Testament references and then convoluted them. If you know about the Old Testament,
there's the Passover marks on the doorframe were done with a sacrificial lamb, definitely not sacrificial children."

Ah, the good ole' Old Testament, and the search for spirituality. Still, WTF?!!!!!

See how that dusty old tome is a recipe for DISASTER for the human race? We don't want to burn books, they are important tools for education, but
they should at least label the Bible as "FICTION" or "MYTHOLOGY", and not teach that it is factual, inerrant, and "sacred."

"Don't paint him as a crazy man. No, that's not him." Says his MOTHER. While I understand the mama-bear instinct (and suffer from a case of it
myself that flares up occasionally when my kids are wronged), and wanting to somehow "explain" or "minimize" behaviors that are unquestionably
maladaptive , we can't forget that an objective stance is required to really see indicators...

Plus, in our culture, a MOTHER is most likely to take the blame (for whatever - and it's an internalized "it's all my fault, where did I go wrong?")
whether it's others pointing a finger at her (and yes, parenting is a HUGE responsibility - which few people are really exceptionally good at), or her
feeling guilty and ashamed and like a failure.

That sounds like something people would do while smoking bath salts. (Which has apparently become a creepy, face-eating trend in the U.S.)

Miami police suspect that what caused a 31-year-old man to rip off his clothes and viciously gnaw on the face of another man in a daylight attack on a
busy highway is a new and extremely dangerous street drug known as "bath salts."

Those were the statements of the offender's mother and stepfather. The little boy's mother was the one who left to get help. But yes, if they
allow that man to stay in a custodial role to the boy, it will be a travesty.

Most states will attempt intervention, parental training, mental health counseling, case management, and do all they can WITH the family BEFORE
removing a child. It's commonly agreed (or was when I was in the biz), that the parents only lose their Rights after extensive efforts to keep the
family together have failed.

all this really shows just how weak the minds of the people are here...they follow the media like mice in a piper story....sad...very few of us
Americans actually have a grip on things...Most over here were not ready for the economic change our government dropped on us,many of us lost our
homes,our way of life due to changes brought on by our governments greed.Mass Bird/Animal deaths,North Korea trying to start world war 3,martial law
looms around the corner,The American dollar will soon go belly up.So yeah i can see brainwashing and mental break down written all over this
one...very sad and unfortunate...poor kid had to have a wack job for a Father.

I haven't found whether or not the guy was on drugs...but he may well have been.
Bad combination of whatever it was. I don't understand people who injure children...and I study the stuff. It's interesting, and I think, very
important that as a society we do figure it out.

I was sick to my stomach last night watching the special reports about the school shooting in Connecticut. If my "man" so much as slapped my kid,
I'd be furious. Throw him out. Period. No. Violence, mutilation, torture, religious fanaticism, ridicule, belt-whipping... NOT IN MY HOUSE.

However, I have a bad feeling that he may end up in the system and be subject to far worse abuse at the hands of the psychopathic elite who
search the care system for kids like this.

No, I doubt that will happen. He has grandparents and a mother; unless they are determined to be completely "unfit", he would go into their care
first...and the offender would get into treatment (or jail), and only if he failed the coursework and showed no improvement, would he lose his
custodial rights.

The child isn't an orphan....yet. But, I understand your concerns. It is frightening.

But just to chime in here, you understand that the pentacle (or pentagram) is not exclusively a Wiccan symbol, right? It's been used as an important
symbol since Pythagoras. Also, 12/12/12 is not a holiday for anybody. This psycho may have picked it out because of the novelty or perhaps he is
part of a small group who believes this.

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